
But it’s such a nice, clean example that I hope by writing about it we might see how any story can be improved by examining how we present choices to a player. Quern is hardly the only game in which the story’s payoff falls flat. Whatever spoilers you see from this point are on you. If you haven’t played Myst and don’t want the ending spoiled, you had 26 years to catch that train.Īlright, that’s enough of a warning. If you haven’t played Quern, I recommend you go buy it and play it now. And because Quern is heavily inspired by the Myst series I will be using those games as comparisons in a few places, so I’ll be spoiling the stories for those, too. I will do my best to not reveal puzzle solutions, but everything else is fair game. Naturally, I will be spoiling this game in its entirety. Having said that, I’m going to dedicate this entire post to nitpicking. That’s too bad because it’s a really good game. I wasn’t even aware of this game until I got it in a Steam recommendation and it seems to have flown under the radar. I will be using lots of images in this walkthrough for most of the puzzles but they will be contained in spoilers as to lower on clutter and give your mouse's scroll wheel less of a hard time.I don’t normally write reviews on this site, but I recently played Quern: Undying Thoughts and I had some thoughts of my own. All puzzles with clues nearby which aren't contained in letters, I have left the solutions in spoilers if you wanted to give some a go! All puzzles which NEED clues from letters, I will solve for you.

If you were wanting to attempt some puzzles yourself, I have catered the walkthrough to that.

This game includes various letters which you are free to pick up and read for more of a narrative into the story, but I will not be telling you to pick them up. But don't worry about that last part, I'll try my best to keep that from happening.

However, with this walkthrough, you should be able to get a fairly easy 1000G, whilst having your brain feel like it's about to spontaneously combust. The only slight issue with the game is there is little no guidance on what you're actually meant to be doing. Quern - Undying Thoughts is essentially a small, open world, adventure, puzzle game.
